Cargo operations around New Orleans have ground to a halt as Hurricane Isaac moves in on the city, and American Trucking Associations urged truck drivers and motorists to take appropriate precautions ahead of the storm.
Isaac was upgraded to a hurricane from a tropical storm about noon Eastern time Tuesday and forecasters expected it to make landfall near New Orleans by early Wednesday, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
While not as big a storm as Katrina, which was a stronger Category 3 hurricane at landfall, Isaac is a large, slow-moving system that forecasters said could dump a foot or more of rain in the region.
“We advise all drivers, commercial and commuter alike, make good travel decisions,” ATA President Bill Graves said in a statement. “No trip, and no delivery, is worth putting yourself or others in harm’s way.”
FedEx Corp. suspended service in a Louisiana parish that is under mandatory evacuation orders and anticipated delays in air-freight service in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, Bloomberg reported.
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